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Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Vol. 28, No. 1, 89-112 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/030908920302800105
© 2003 SAGE Publications

Satire in Isaiah’s Tyre Oracle

Reed Lessing

Concordia Seminary, St Louis, MO 63105, USA

Most scholars believe that Isaiah’s Tyre Oracle is a prophetic lament. This article argues that Isa. 23.1-14 is best understood as a predictive satirical city-lament. In order to make this case, both prophetic satire and the genre of a city-lament are defined. A translation of Isa. 23.1-14 is followed by an investigation of the text’s context, verbal markers and perceptible contradictions. Observations on Ezekiel’s oracle against Tyre (27.1-11, 26-36) lead to the conclusion that the genre of a city-lament requires treating the downfall as a past event, whereas in terms of history it is still in the future.


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